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The actual snow line began about 100 feet above the valley floor.

Only small juniper trees grow on the mountain slopes. The surrounding mountain peaks rise to 11,000 to 12,000 feet. The base of the Shah-i-Khot Valley is approximately 8,500 feet in altitude. The terrain is rugged, and the peaks have many spurs and ridges. The battle area occupied about 60 square miles. Operation Anaconda began before dawn on 2 March 2002.

Special Forces and other troops, and 200 special operations troops from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Norway, New Zealand, and Afghan allies. The mission involved about 2,000 coalition troops, including more than 900 Americans, 200 U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, led the major effort to clean out remaining al-Qaeda fighters and their Taliban al­ lies in the Shah-i-Khot Valley. Hagenbeck 2Īs of 2 March 2002, Operation Anaconda was the largest combat operation in Afghanistan of the War on Terrorism that began after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. We’ve killed several hundred of them, but they just keep coming. They just kept sending them into our meat grinder. Operation Anaconda, Shah-i-Khot Valley, Afghanistan, 2-10 March 2002 1 Reprint from Military Review March-April 2002 Adam Geibel © 2002